“President Obama's action today is a blight on his legacy because he will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law”

“The statute is particularly dangerous because it has no temporal or geographic limitations, and can be used by this and future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield.  The ACLU will fight worldwide detention authority wherever we can, be it in court, in Congress, or internationally.”


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